HISTORY AND PUBLICATIONS 



OF THE 



MISSOURI 



State Horticultural Society 



F. A. SAMPS OM. 



{From Thirty-third Annual Report of the Society.^ 



JEFFERSON CITY, MO.: 

TBIBUNE PRIMTINO COMPANY, STATB PRIMTBBS AND BINDERS. 

1891. 



HISTORY AND PUBLICATIONS 



OP THE 



MISSOURI 



State Horticultural Society 



BY 

F-H.^ ' A^^*"S AMPSON 



lFro7n Thirty-third Annual Report of the Society.'] 



JEFFERSON CITY, MO.: 

TaiBUNB PRINTING COMPANY, STATE PRINTERS AND BINDERS. 

1891. 






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^EB 10 1905 
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HISTORY AND PUBLICATIONS 



State Horticultural Society. 



BY F. A. SAMPSON, SEDALIA, MO. 

Previous to 1859, Hon. l!f. J. Colman, then editor of the " Valley 
Tarmer " at St. Louis, in editorials in the tenth and eleventh volumes, 
urged the formation of a society for the promotion of fruit-growing, 
and on the 5th of January, 1859, a few persons met in Jefferson City 
*' for the purpose of advancing and directing the fruit-growing interests 
of Missouri and the west." 

The meeting organized by calling Prof. G-. C. Swallow to the chair, 
and the appointment of Mr. F. R. Elliott, afterward Secretary of the 
American Pomological society, as secretary. The name " Missouri 
Pruit Growers' Association" was adopted, and Mr. Oolman was elected 
President ; F. E. Elliott, Recording Secretary, George Husmann, Oor- 
TespondiDg Secretary, and John Garnett, Treasurer. The Vice-Presi- 
dents were Dr. McPherson, Prof. G. C. Swallow, George M. Horner, 
Dr. McGuire, Eldridge Burden, William 0. Price and John Dedrick. 
Among others taking part in the meeting were Hon. W. B. Morris, 
of St. Louis ; Mr. C. C. Man waring, of Hermann ; Mr. Richter, of Jef- 
ferson county ; Hon. R. W. Wells, Gen. Minor, Gen. E. L. Edwards and 
■others, of Jefferson City. 

Twenty-one years later the Society again elected Mr. Colman as its 
President, and in his address at the annual meeting in 1880 he thus re- 
fers to the early years of the Society : 

At the time of its organization the golden era of horticulture was dawning in 
"this State. The Society flourished and horticulture flourished. Enthusiasticho r- 
ticulturists, not only from all parts of this State but from our neighboring State of 
Illinois, became members . The meetings were awaited with interest, and the at- 
tendance was large. The discussions were interesting and instructive, and the pub- 
lications of the proceedings were eagerly sought by horticulturists from all parts 



4 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 

Of the Union. The tables were loaded with the finest specimens of fruits an<J 
■wines, and their merits were extolled over the broad land. The cause of horticul- 
ture flourished like a green bay tree. At this period in the history of the society 
no State horticultural association in the nation stood higher. Such high repute did 
our society and the horticulture of our State enjoy, that a meeting of the American 
Pomological society was held here, and it proved to be one of the largest and most, 
attractive ever held by that society. Tables encircling the immense hall and cross 
tables were inadequate to hold the samples of fruit and native wines that were ex- 
hibited. Fruit-growers from the East were unable to recognize varieties with which 
they had been familiar at home from their boyhood, on account of their superior 
size and richness of coloring. 

A called meeting was held at the Fair grounds at St. Louis on the 
27th of September, 1859, when Dr. L. T>. Morse was made Eecording 
Secretary in place of Mr. Elliott, who had moved from the State, and 
various kinds of fruits were exhibited and discussed. 

The first annual meeting after the organization was held at Jefferson 
City on the 27th of December, 1859, and Mr. Colman was re-elected 
President; Vice-Presidents, Dr. A. W. McPherson, Prof. Gr. 0. Swallow^ 
Geo. M. Horner, Dr. McGuire, E. Burden, W. 0. Price and John Ded- 
rick ; Corresponding Secretary, Dr. L. D. Morse ; Eecording Secretary, 
Wm. Muir ; and Treasurer, Dr. 0. W. Spalding. It was decided ta 
publish a pamphlet containing the proceedings of this and all prior 
meetings, and an essay on grape culture, by Mr. George Husmann. 
For a number of years Mr. Muir filled the oflBce of Secretary, and is- 
afterward described by Mr. Mudd as " a devoted and intelligent horti- 
culturist, understanding all our terms and phrases, familiar with our 
nomenclature, his reports got up in such manner as to be of interest to. 
all, and it is believed, contributed, in great measure, to create that zeal 
and devotion in our members which enabled us not only to maintain 
our organization, but to increase the interest in and attendance on our 
meetings through the period of a civil war, which destroyed all similar 
organizations in all the other slave-holding states." 

A called meeting was held on the 7th of September, 1860, at Her- 
mann. The next annual meeting was held at St. Louis on the 8th of 
January, 1861. At the former annual meeting no fruits except 
grapes were exhibited ; but at this and all succeeding meetings many 
varieties of fruits and wines were shown. By-laws were adopted at 
this meeting, and Dr. C. W. Spalding was elected President; Vice- 
Presidents, Dr. A. W. McPherson, Prof. G. C. Swallow, Geo. M. Horner, 
W. L. Irving, Eldridge Burden, Wm. C. Price and W. S. Jewett ; Ee- 
cording Secretary and Treasurer, Wm. Muir; and Corresponding Sec- 
retary, Dr. L. D. Morse. 

The next annual meeting was held in St. Louis on the 14th of Jan- 
uary, 1862. It is said that the address of the President was " most 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 5 

Ibeautiful and forcible," but unfortunately it was not printed in the pro- 
ceedings. It was at this meeting that the name was changed, on the 
suggestion of Dr. Spalding, to that which it now bears, in order that 
the society might have a " wider range of purpose, embracing all the 
objects of horticultural design and improvement." Dr. Spalding was 
Te-elected President ; the Yice-Presidents were Dr. A. W. McPherson, 
Prof. G. C. Swallow, Geo. M. Horner, W. L. Irving, Eldridge Burden, 
Wm. C. Price and W. S. Jewett; Corresponding Secretary, Dr. L. D. 
Morse, and Eecording Secretary and Treasurer, Wm. Mjiir. A com- 
mittee was appointed to see if the transactions of the society could be 
published in the same volume with the transactions of the Illinois 
Horticultural society, but this does not seem to have been done. 

. The next annual meeting was held at St. Louis in January, 1863. 
The following officers were elected : President, Henry T. Mudd ; Vice- 
Presidents, Dr. B. F. Edwards, George Husmann, O. H. P. Lear, Isaac 
Snedeker and William Hadley, the two latter of Illinois ; Correspond- 
ing Secretary, Dr. L. D. Morse, and Eecording Secretary and Treas- 
urer, Wm. Muir. An essay on the grape was read at the meeting by 
Mr. George Husmann, and was published on pages 38-43 of "An Essay 
on the Culture of the Grape in the Great West," by the same author, 
published at Hermann in 1863. In the Proceedings of the meeting of 
January, 1864, I find the active members included Henry T. Mudd, IST. 
J. Colman, George Husmann, Dr. L. D. Morse, Dr. H. Claggett, Dr. B. 
P. Long, Dr. B. F. Edwards, Wm. Muir, John H. Tice and others well 
known in later years. 

The report for 1864 gives a list of 133 members. Only a part of 
the later reports give lists of members, but the number varied greatly 
from year to year, in 1873 it being only 29. The membership fee has 
been a mere nominal amount, and this is sufficient reason for the great 
variation in the number. Perhaps the present plan of giving a list of 
the members and correspondents is the best, without making any spe- 
cial effort to have a large membership, the work of the society in any 
event being done by a few members. 

The first list of life members was given in the Proceedings for 1872. 
The following are all of the names found in the different published lists : 

Henry T. Mudd, Charles Peabody, J. C. Evans, 

A. E. Trabue, John H. Tice, L. A Goodman, 

Hezekiah Claggett, Daniel L. Hall, D. M. Dunlap. 

Honorary members were first given in the Proceedings for 1884, 

and the list to the present time is made up of the following : 

George Husmann, C. W. Murtfeldt, Marshall P. Wilder, 

T. T. Lyon, N. J. Colman, Charles Downing. 



6 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 

In 1883 the constitution was amended so as to especially provide for 
lady members, and since that time they have made a part of the society, 
and joined in the proceedings at the annual meeting. 

The society has made exhibits of fruit at various places, and 
accomplished much in this way by directing the attention of the people 
of other states to Missouri as a fruit state. At the meeting of the 
American Pomological Society, at Eochester in 1879, several medals 
were awarded to it — one for the largest and best display of apples 
made by any society, another for the best display of grapes, and another 
for the best display of pears. Again in 1883 it made an exhibit of 
fruits at the meeting of the same society, and also at the Grand Rapids 
meeting in 1885. In February, 1883, it showed 85 varieties of fine 
fruits at the meeting of the Mississippi Valley Horticultural Society at 
Kew Orleans. In 1884 it took various premiums at the Exposition in 
New Orleans— a gold medal and |200 on 200 varieties of apples ; a silver 
medal and $100 on 100 varieties of apples ; a silver medal and $75.00 on 
50 varieties of apples ; two other silver medals and twenty smaller pre- 
miums. At the at. Louis Fair, the St. Louis Exposition and other 
places it has made exhibits with similar results. 

In 1882, the society having an appropriation from the Legislature 
of $2,500 for two years, decided to establish an experimental orchard 
and garden at the Agricultural College grounds, for testing new fruits 
and vegetables ; and the reports of the committee in charge of the 
work show valuable results. 

The first report of the present secretary was that of 1883, and it,, 
as well as the succeeding ones, contains not only the original papers 
readat the meetings, but selections from the horticultural journals 
published during the year. The twenty-eighth report has the " Flora of 
Missouri," by Prof. S. M. Tracy, taking up 106 pages, the first cata- 
logue of the plants of the state published since that by Geyer in 1842. 

I will not notice in detail the different meetings, or the contents of 
the Proceedings. Each volume contains much of interest, and if the 
practical horticulturist had a complete set of the Proceedings and 
would read them all through carefully once a year, he would learn mucli 
that would help him to do more intelligent work, and to reap more 
abundant reward for work done. Each volume has many papers which 
would teach him new ideas to be put in practical operation or which 
would assist in educating the mind, and at least enlarge the capacity of 
enjoyment, and widen the scope of vision — the tiller of the soil too 
often contenting himself with simply living an animal life, with mind 
but little more developed than those of the animals with which his 
work brings him into contact. 



BIBLIOaRAPHY. 7 

The following table shows the officers of the society from its 
organization to the present time. After 1868 the offices of correspond- 
ing and recording secretary were united in the same person, and since 
1881 the constitution has provided for a vice-president, instead of one 
for each congressional district as was the case previous to that time. 
The table also gives the time of each meeting, its serial number and 
the number by which it is known in the published proceedings : 



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BIBLIOGRAPHY. 9 

The organization of the Horticultural Society was prior to the in- 
corporation of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture, which was by 
act of the Legislature approved December 1, 1863, though previous to 
that time there existed the Missouri State Agricultural Society, to 
which, by an act of November 23, 1855, county societies were required 
to report. The act of 1863 provided that there should be printed each 
year 3,000 copies of a volume containing the report of the Board of 
Agriculture and the proceedings of the Horticultural Society, the 
volume to be issued under the direction of the presidents of the two 
bodies. 

This was afterward changed so as to make the number of copies 
6,000, and that section of the act was again amended March 24, 1875, 
providing that the volume should be issued under the direction of the 
President of the Board of Agriculture, without joining with him the 
President of the Horticultural Society, and providing that 14,000 copies 
should be issued, 2,000 of these being in German, and that the volume 
should not exceed 500 pages. Provision was afterward made for the 
State to publish the proceedings of the Horticultural Society in a 
separate volume, and 3,000 copies of this are now issued. 

President Mudd, in his annual address in 1865, recommended a 
library for the Society, to embrace horticultural, pomblogical and 
agricultural works and periodicals. The recommendation does not 
seem to have been acted upon, and should the society now wish to do 
so, it would find much difficulty in getting a set of its own Proceedings, 
or even that part of the set which has been published since the date of 
that address. Had each Secretary saved from immediate distribution 
a hundred copies of the Proceedings of every year, it would now have 
not only a supply for itself, but the means of completing sets for such 
libraries as would care for and preserve its publications. 

Previous to the law of 1863 the proceedings were published by 
the Society itself, and as the annual dues of its members were but 
$1.00 before 1866, special contributions had to be made by the mem- 
bers to provide the funds for publication. 

In numbering the reports the first meeting was not counted, so 
that when the Society issued what it called the proceedings of the 
eighteenth annual meeting for 1877, it had met in annual meetings 19 
times. The Proceedings of the meeting in January, 1879, were called the 
twenty-first, there having been but one meeting between these two. I 
have not a copy of that report, but presume the explanation was made 
in it, that there was a change in the numbering so that the volumes 
would correspond with the years. The Proceedings of the January, 
1874, meeting were published in the Agricultural report for 1873, and 



10 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 

as that report was only a pamphlet of 72 pages, copies soon became 
destroyed, so that I have never seen but one copy of it, though I have 
searched for it a long time in different parts of the State. It furnishes 
another proof of the fact that an unbound book or pamphlet is soon 
destroyed, while the bound one is not. 

In my library I have nearly a complete set of the Proceedings of 
the Society, and wishing to see those I have not got, I wrote the prin- 
cipal libraries in the State to find which of them had the copies wanted. 
The replies were as follows : The State Historical Society had none, 
and did not know that there was such a society which published its pro- 
ceedings; Mercantile library, St. Louis, has none of those wanted, its 
set being very deficient, but hopes to be able to fill it up ; Public library, 
St. Louis, has no reports whatever of the society ; Academy of Science^ 
St. Louis, has none of those wanted ; Agricultural College of the State 
University, Columbia, ''the University library does not contain the horti- 
cultural reports ; " the State library, Jefferson City, has none of those 
wanted. These replies suggest various thoughts, perhaps the most 
striking being that the State Historical Society does not know of the 
existence of this Society, and that the horticultural department of the 
State Agricultural college has none of the publications of the State 
Horticultural Society. Is the state of facts shown the result of negli- 
gence on the part of librarians, or because the publications are not 
worthy of preservation ? 'Mo one would intimate the latter, and ta par- 
tially overcome the former, the Secretary might put the different libra- 
ries in the State on his list to receive copies of the proceedings. 

The following bibliograpy of the publications of the Society will 
show the exact title of each report, the time and place of holding the 
meeting, the number of pages of each volume, and the publication of 
which the proceedings formed a part, when they were not in separate 
books in themselves. The number I have given each shows its numer- 
ical order of publication : 



Proceedings of the Missouri Fruit Growers' Association, for 1859, and 
the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting for 1860, to which is ap- 
pended an Essay on Grape Culture, By George Husmann, of Her- 
mann, Mo. St. Louis: T.W.Ustick, Printer, 78 Pine Street. 1860. 
64 pp. 

The report of the Meeting at the Fair Grounds in September, 1S59, contained 
in this, was furnished by the Secretary to the " Valley Farmer," and is in 
Volume XI, pp. 350-1, Nov., 1859, 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. H 



Proceedings of the Missouri State Horticultural Society, at their annual 
meetings, in 1861 and 1862. 65 to 116 pp. 

The report of the meeting of January 1861 is also contained in the "Valley- 
Farmer," Volume XIII, pp. 89-90, 118-9, ir)2-2, and 182-4, March to June, 1861. 

The report of the meeting of January 1862 is in Volume XIV, pp. 87-9, 
117-9, 149-50, 247-8, 310-12, 275-8, 342-5 and 372-5. 

3 
Proceedings of the Missouri State Horticultural Society, at their Fourth 
Annual Meeting, held at St. Louis, on Tuesday, 13th January, 1863 
and three following days. Saint Louis: Printed at the "Valley 
Farmer" office. 97 Chestnut street. 1863. 58, (2), pp. 

4 
Proceedings of the Missouri State Horticultural Society, at their Fifth 
Annual Meeting, held at St. Louis, on Tuesday, January 12th, 1864,. 
and three following days. Saint Louis : George Knapp & Co.,. 
Printers and Binders. 1864. 148 pp. 

5 
Proceedings of the Missouri State Horticultural Society. [Sixth Meet- 
ing, Jan. 10, 1865.] <l8t Agricultural Report, 1866, Appendix pp.. 
267-391. <Senate Journal, Appendix, Adj. Sess., 23rd Gen. Assy,, 
1865, Vol. 11, pp. 267-391 of Appendix to Agricultural Eeport. 

5 

Seventh Annual Meeting of the Missouri State Horticultural Society. 
[Jan. 9, 1866.] <lst Agricultural Eeport, for 1866, Appendix pp.. 
392-470. <Senate Journal, Appendix, Adj. Sess., 23rd Gen. Assy,, 
1865, Vol. 11, pp. 392-470 of Appendix to Agricultural Eeport. 

7 
Proceedings of the Missouri Horticultural Society. [8th Meeting, Jan. 
8, 1867.] <2nd Agricultural Eeport, for 1866, pp. 339-507. <House 
Journal, Appendix, 1st Sess., 24th Gen. Assy., 1867, Vol. 11, pp.. 
389-507. 

5 t 

Proceedings of the Missouri Horticultural Society at its Ninth Annual 
Meeting, held in the Supreme Court Eoom, on the 14th January,, 
1868. <3rd Agricultural Eeport, for 1867, pp. 347-429. 



.12 STATE HORTICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 



Proceedings of the Missouri State Horticultural Society, at its Tenth 
Annual Meeting, held at Columbia, November 24th, 25th, and 
26th, 1868. <4th Agricultural Eeport, for 1868, pp. 485-536. 



Proceedings of the Missouri State Horticultural Society, at its Eleventh 
Annual Meeting, held at St. Louis the 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th of 
January, 1870. <5th Agricultural Eeport for 1869, pp. 1-123 
and I. 

II 

Transactions of the Missouri State Horticultural Society, at its Twelfth 
Annual Meeting. Held at St. Joseph. On the 29th JSovember, 
and the following days. Jefferson City, Mo.: Horace Wilcox, 
Public Printer. 1871. <6th Agricultural Eeport, for 1870, pp. 
1-34 and 101-103. 

12 

Proceedings of the Missouri Horticultural Society, at the Thirteenth 
Annual Meeting. Held at Kansas City, January 9-11, 1872. 
<7th Agricultural Eeport, for 1871, pp. 39-112. 

13 
Proceedings of the Missouri State Horticultural Society at the Four- 
teenth Annual Meeting. Held at Jefferson City, January 7-10, 1873. 
<8th Agricultural Eeport, for 1872, Part 11, pp. 35-170 and 1-7. 

14 
Proceedings of the Missouri State Horticultural Society, at the Fif- 
teenth Anhual Meeting. Held at Hannibal, January 13, 14, and 
15, 1874. By D. L. Hall, Secretary. <9th Agricultural Eeport, 
for 1873, pp. 19-72. 

15 
Proceedings of the Missouri Horticultural Society at its Sixteenth An- 
nual Meeting. Held at St. Louis, Missouri, January 12, 13, 14 and 
15, 1875. < 11th Agricultural Eeport for 1875, pp. 103-162 and 

i-y. 

16 

Proceedings of the Missouri Horticultural Society at its Seventeenth 
Annual Session. Held in the City of St. Louis, on the 11th, 12th, 
13th and 14th days of January, 1876. < Ilth Agricultural Eeport 
for 1875, pp. 163-251 and I-V. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 13 

Proceedings of the Missouri State Horticultural Society, at its 
Eighteenth Annual Session. Held at Kansas City, on the 19th, 
20th, 21st and 22nd of December, 1876. < 12th Agricultural Ee- 
port, for 1876, pp. 135-215 and vii. 

i8 
(Not seen.) 

19 

Proceedings of the Missouri State Horticultural Society, at its Twenty- 
first Annual Session. Held at Jefferson City, Mo., January 28-30, 

1879. < 13th Agricultural Report, for 1879, pp. 235-351 and ii-v. 

20 
I 

Proceedings of the Missouri State Horticultural Society at its Twenty- 
second Annual Meeting. Held at St. Louis, Mo., January 19-21, 

1880. By the Secretary, S. M. Tracy. < 14th Agricultural Eeport, 
for 1879, pp. 191-260. 



Eeport of the Missouri State Horticultural Society, for the years 1880 

and 1881. Edited by the Secretary. Jefferson City: Tribune 

Printing Company, Printers and Binders. 1882. 
(Half page title : ) Missouri State Horticultural Society. Twenty-third 

Annual Eeport. <pp. 1-150, and I-III of volume containing this 

and the next. 

22 

Proceedings of the Missouri State Horticultural Society, at its Twenty- 
fourth Annual Meeting, Held at Columbia, Mo., December 20 and 
21, 1881. <pp. 151-229 and I-IIl of volume with preceding. 

23 

Eeport of the Missouri State Horticultural Society for the year 1882. 
Edited by the Secretary. Jefferson City : Tribune Printing Com- 
pany, Printers and Binders. 1883. 92 pp., 5 plates. 

24 

Eeport of the Missouri State Horticultural Society for the year 1883. 
Being a report of the workings of the society for the year, to- 
gether with the papers and discussions at the 26th Annual Meet- 
ing, held at Carthage, Mo., Dec. 11, 12, 13, 1883. Containing also 



14 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 

a constitution for the workings of local or county horticultural 
societies, and " Secretary's Budget," being choice clippings from 
the best horticultural papers. L. A. Goodman, Sec'y, Westport, 
Mo. Jefferson City : State Journal Co., State Printers. 1884. 
354 pp. 

25 

Report of the Missouri State Horticultural Society, for the year 1884. 
Being a report of the workings of the society for the year, to- 
gether with the papers and discussions at the 27th Annual Meeting 
held at St. Joseph, Dec. 9, 10, 11, 1884. Also, a report of the 
Semi-annual Meeting held at Springfield, June 10 and 11, 1884 : 
containing also, a constitution for the working of local or county 
horticultural societies, and " Secretary's Budget." L. A. Good- 
man, Secretary, Westport, Mo. Jefferson City: Tribune Co., 
State Printers. 1884. 

26 

Heport of the Missouri State Horticultural Society, for the year 1885. 
Eeport of the 28th Annual Meeting held at Warrensburg, Decem- 
ber 9, 10, 11, 1885, also a report of the Semi-annual Meeting held 
at Butler, June 10 and 11, 1885, and " Secretary's Budget." L. A. 
Goodman, Secretary, Westport, Mo. Jefferson City, Mo.: Tribune 
Printing Company, State Printers and Binders. 1886. 468, V, 
506 pp. 

27 . 

Twenty-ninth Annual Eeport of the State Horticultural Society of the 
State of Missouri. Eeport of the Twenty-ninth Annual Meeting 
held at Lexington, December 7, 8 and 9, 1886; also, a report of the 
Semi-annual Meeting held at Louisiana, June 10 and 11, 1886, and 
" Secretary's Budget," for the year 1886. L. A. Goodman, Secre- 
tary, Westport, Mo. Jefferson City, Mo.: Tribune Printing Com- 
pany, State Printers and Binders. 1887. 431, VI, pp. 

28 
Thirtieth Annual Eeport of the State Horticultural Society of the 
State of Missouri. Thirtieth Annual Meeting held at Boonville, 
December 6, 7 and 8, 1887. Semi-annual Meeting held at West 
Plains, June 7, 8 and 9, and " Secretary's Budget." L. A. Good- 
man, Secretary, Westport, Mo. Jefferson City, Mo.: Tribune 
Printing Company, State Printers and Binders. 1888. 4S8, IV, pp. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 15 



29 

Thirty-first Annual Eeport of the State Horticultaral Society of Mis- 
souri. 1888. Thirty-first Annual Meeting' held at Nevada, Decem- 
ber 5, 6 and 7, 1888, also. Semi- Annual Meeting held at Oregon, 
June 6, 6 and 7, and other papers. L. A. Goodman, Secretary, 
Westport, Mo. Jefferson City, Mo. : Tribune Printing Company 
State Printers and Binders. 1889. 501, IV pp. 

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Thirty-second Annual Eeport of the State Horticultural Society of Mis- 
souri. 1889. Thirty-second Annual Meeting, held at Lebanon, 
Dec. 4, 5 and 6, 1889 : also. Semi- Annual Meeting held at Brook- 
field, June 4, 5 and 6, and other papers. L. A. Goodman, Secre- 
tary, Westport, Mo. Jefferson City, Mo. : Tribune Printing Com- 
pany, State Printers and Binders. 1890. 467, II pp. 



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